Explain this to me?

Gracecakes29

So say my calorie intake is 1700 but i burn 1000 is that fine to be running off only 700 calories?

enickma1221

"Fine" is a funny word. What are you trying to accomplish?

kimny72

No it's not. You want to at least net 1200 cals total.

Your deficit is already included in your MFP cal goal, so you should eat back at least some of your exercise calories.

malibu927

No. If your goal is 1700, you should ideally be netting 1700 calories.

That said, depending on what you did it's pretty unlikely you burned 1000 calories. Start by only eating half of those back, then adjust based on your results over the next 4-6 weeks.

Gracecakes29

Ok thank you!!

psuLemon

I'd ask what you would be doing to burn a 1000 calories and how its measured. And I would ask how you came up with 1700.

Redordeadhead

No it's not. You should be eating back at least some of your exercise calories.

TavistockToad

Gracecakes29 wrote: »

So say my calorie intake is 1700 but i burn 1000 is that fine to be running off only 700 calories?

Nope, it's the same as only eating 700 cals.

tennisdude2004

Are you saying you ‘eat’ 1700 calories and burn off 1000 calories in a day?

If you are eating 1700 calories then yes that is okay, depending on your diet you should be hitting your macro and micronutrients!

mmapags

psuLemon wrote: »

I'd ask what you would be doing to burn a 1000 calories and how its measured. And I would ask how you came up with 1700.

This is the first thing that occurred to me. If the burn is from exercise above normal activity and is accurate, then no, you are not eating enough.

mkculs

tennisdude2004 wrote: »

Are you saying you ‘eat’ 1700 calories and burn off 1000 calories in a day?

If you are eating 1700 calories then yes that is okay, depending on your diet you should be hitting your macro and micronutrients!

No, you need to NET 1700 calories. If you eat 1700, then exercise to burn another 1000, your "net" is 700. You would need to eat more.

If MFP gave you a goal of 1700, it means you are already estimated to be burning about 2200 calories without additional exercise. It has built in a 500 calorie deficit, in other words. You can NET as low as 1200, but you may be too hungry for that to be sustainable.

To be on the safe side, eat what MFP gives you PLUS at least 50% of your exercise calories. In your example, that would be 1700 plus 500 (which is 1/2 of the 1000 you say you burned through exercise--and be careful where you get that burn estimate). So you would need to eat 2200 calories that day. You will still have a deficit of 1000, of course.